News, Articles, and Information

Meteorite Hunting

This is the place for our meteorite hunting information and our Internet round-the-campfire meteorite hunting stories. Here we’ll share our experiences with the meteorites, the snakes, the low flying jet fighters that streaked over the dry lake to the stars at night. Hunting meteorites is always an adventure.

The meteorite hunting articles below will help you learn about finding meteorites. If you have a topic or questions about hunting for meteorites that you would like answered please use our contact us form.

Meteorites have some features in their makeup that allow the hunter to use simple and fancy tools in the search. Nearly all meteorites have some nickel-iron in them. So magnets and metal detectors are very useful in helping to find them. But, before talking about the high and low tech tools some attention should be … Continue Reading »

One of the first questions asked of a meteorite hunter is “where do you go to hunt them?” The simple answer is they fall everywhere randomly so you could possibly find them anywhere. But, in reality there are many factors that make hunting meteorites in certain places better and other places impossible. Meteorites do not … Continue Reading »